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.
A craton is the oldest part of a continental plate. It is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere.After surviving cycles of merging and rifting of continents, cratons are usually found in the interiors of tectonic plates.ratonic lithosphere is much older than oceanic lithosphere â up to 4 billion years versus 180 million years. The term craton is used to distinguish the stable portion of the continental crust from regions that are more geologically active and unstable.