In the rural Southwestern United States, Howdy is a colloquial contraction of the formal greeting of How do you do?, and as such is considered a formal and acceptable greeting for residents of that region of the world. Howdy is also the official greeting of Texas A&M University. The word became recently popular in other areas of the world as it is the default greeting from the dashboard of WordPress, a very popular content management system.
The cribriform plate is the name given to a specific area of the human skull. It is part of the ethmoid bone, which is responsible for separating the brain from the nasal cavity.n injury in the region of the cribriform plate requires immediate medical attention. Damage to the cribriform plate may cause loss of smell. The grooved, narrow cribriform plate supports the olfactory bulb. Any type of head injury can cause damage to the cribriform plate.
The ethmoid bone is cubical in shape, and exceedingly light; it is situated at the anterior part of the base of the cranium, and assists in forming the medial walls of the orbital cavities, the septum of the nose, and the roof and lateral walls of the nasal cavity.t consists of four parts: a horizontal, perforated plate named the cribriform plate, a perpendicular plate and two labyrinths or lateral masses. The cribriform plate of the ethmoid (fig. 366) occupies the ethmoidal notch of the frontal bone and forms a part of the roof of the nasal cavity.