deviated nasal septum

1. 1.

   abnormal shift in location of the nasal septum; a common condition causing obstruction of the nasal passages and difficulty in breathing and recurrent nosebleeds

   Broaderdeviated septum

Questions about deviated nasal septum

What does deviated nasal septum mean?

deviated nasal septum means "abnormal shift in location of the nasal septum; a common condition causing obstruction of the nasal passages and difficulty in breathing and recurrent nosebleeds".

Is deviated nasal septum a common word?

deviated nasal septum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.