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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 dutydivides your two nostrils into separate lanes
heart versionseparates blood that pumps from blood that rests
deviated commonmost people's nasal septum leans off-center
piercing spotthe sweet gap below cartilage barely hurts
latin rootmeans fence or enclosure, fittingly