deviated septum

1. 1.

   abnormal displacement of any wall that separates two chambers (usually in the nasal cavity)

   Broaderabnormality

   Narrowerdeviated nasal septum

Questions about deviated septum

What does deviated septum mean?

deviated septum means "abnormal displacement of any wall that separates two chambers (usually in the nasal cavity)".

Is deviated septum a common word?

deviated 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.