Dictionary entry

Subnormal

Pronunciation: /sʌbˈnɔːm(ə)l/

Pronunciation

/sʌbˈnɔːm(ə)l/

Myanmar Meaning

အသိဉာဏ်တွင် ပုံမှန်ထက်လျော့နည်းနိမ့်ကျသော။

Definition

subnormal /sʌb'nↄ:ml/ adj စံမမီေသာ။ လူတမ္းမေစ့ေသာ။ ပံုမွန္ ေအာက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ an educationally subnormal child.

Examples

  1. ‘Patients with unilateral or bilateral paralysis have subnormal exercise capacity
  2. and oxygen consumption (normalized by minute ventilation) at peak exercise is increased.’
  3. ‘He's a man of limited intelligence
  4. he's got a very subnormal IQ
  5. and they wanted to hang the crime on someone.’
  6. ‘Ironically
  7. she had always hated the idea of being a teacher
  8. but after joining the staff of the university's psychiatric clinic
  9. she found herself fascinated by the challenge of educating mentally subnormal children.’
  10. ‘My daughter
  11. 37
  12. is severely subnormal and does not speak.’
  13. ‘Epilepsy does not shorten life or cause insanity or subnormal intelligence.’
  14. ‘Patients exhibit subnormal eye and skin pigmentation due to aberrant melanosome development.’
  15. ‘In the production of PT materials
  16. it is often necessary to chemically remove analytes from PT specimens or to dilute the PT material with artificial diluents in order to obtain subnormal target values.’
  17. ‘A significant number risk osteoporosis in later life due to subnormal bone density.’
  18. ‘Disappointingly
  19. I missed out on subnormal by two points.’
  20. ‘This range is broad enough to create a difference between normal tissue glutathione peroxidase and subnormal levels.’
  21. ‘It also gives the medical profession a privileged position in determining who is disabled
  22. as the study and treatment of normal and subnormal human functioning is the specialty of that profession.’
  23. ‘Stone
  24. a 67-year-old man of low intelligence
  25. partially deaf and almost blind
  26. lived in a house with his mistress Dobinson
  27. who was ineffectual and inadequate
  28. and Stone's subnormal son.’
  29. ‘The resolution of the dilemma is for the tax to be based on the highest valued possible current use rather than the actual current use
  30. thus facing the possessor with the need to either shift use or accept a subnormal return.’
  31. ‘Aldosterone production is preserved in secondary adrenal failure; renin concentrations will therefore be normal
  32. and Synacthen tests will show a subnormal response to cortisol.’
  33. ‘The Likely Lads is noteworthy for being one of the few sitcoms that didn't portray ordinary people as educationally subnormal or criminally minded.’
  34. ‘Pregnancies can be established with subnormal parameters
  35. illustrating the importance of the female partner's fertility potential and the fact that an abnormal semen analysis cannot be equated with subfertility.’
  36. ‘I suspect it was in fact a holding pen for all of Brighton's mentally subnormal and alcoholic inhabitants.’
  37. ‘What is not typical may be exceptional
  38. and so better than it; but what is not ‘normal’ is infallibly worse than it - abnormal or subnormal.’
  39. ‘Understandably
  40. Roy was extremely worried
  41. not just about the turn of events that day
  42. but because he knew that his son Stephen was educationally subnormal with the mental age of an 11-year-old.’
  43. ‘The most obvious example of this is in autistic spectrum disorder - a wide-ranging diagnosis now used for many children who would previously have been diagnosed as subnormal.’