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.
By Andrew Alden. The lithosphere is the brittle outer layer of the solid Earth. The plates of plate tectonics are segments of the lithosphere. The lithosphere is basically the layer of the Earth that is strong enough to flex rather than flow. Its top is easy to seeit's at the Earth's surfacebut the base of the lithosphere is a transition rather than a sharp boundary.