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the wall that splits everything down the middle and gets all the credit
means A dividing wall or partition between two cavities or spaces in the body, most familiarly the one separating your two nostrils.
from Straight from Latin septum, meaning a fence, partition, or enclosure — itself from the verb saepire, 'to hedge in' or 'to enclose,' built on saepes, a hedge. Romans fenced their fields; anatomists borrowed the word to fence off the body's chambers.
- nose duty
- divides your two nostrils into separate lanes
- heart version
- separates blood that pumps from blood that rests
- deviated common
- most people's nasal septum leans off-center
- piercing spot
- the sweet gap below cartilage barely hurts
- latin root
- means fence or enclosure, fittingly
for instance
vomer bone — the main bone of the nasal septum, present in all humans
deviated septum surgery — septoplasty procedure performed on millions worldwide to correct breathing obstruction
cardiac ventricular septum — the wall dividing the heart's left and right ventricles, critical to circulation