Curvature of a nasal septum - consequence of anomaly of development of a facial skeleton or a trauma. On the bent part of a nasal septum often there are osteal or cartilaginous thickenings in the form of a crest or a thorn.

Signs, current. Difficulty or deenergizing of nasal respiration. Quite often there is a chronic inflammation of an acoustical pipe and a drum-type cavity. Complicating outflow of a secret from the adnexal sinuses, the bent nasal septum can promote development of a sinusitis. Curvatures, thorns and crests, adjoining to a concha, sometimes cause reflex neurosises.