Dictionary entry
Swordstick
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːdstɪk/
Pronunciation
/ˈsɔːdstɪk/
Myanmar Meaning
တုတ်ဓား။
Definition
subnormal /sʌb'nↄ:ml/ adj စံမမီေသာ။ လူတမ္းမေစ့ေသာ။ ပံုမွန္ ေအာက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ an educationally subnormal child.
Examples
- ‘Patients with unilateral or bilateral paralysis have subnormal exercise capacity
- and oxygen consumption (normalized by minute ventilation) at peak exercise is increased.’
- ‘He's a man of limited intelligence
- he's got a very subnormal IQ
- and they wanted to hang the crime on someone.’
- ‘Ironically
- she had always hated the idea of being a teacher
- but after joining the staff of the university's psychiatric clinic
- she found herself fascinated by the challenge of educating mentally subnormal children.’
- ‘My daughter
- 37
- is severely subnormal and does not speak.’
- ‘Epilepsy does not shorten life or cause insanity or subnormal intelligence.’
- ‘Patients exhibit subnormal eye and skin pigmentation due to aberrant melanosome development.’
- ‘In the production of PT materials
- 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.’
- ‘A significant number risk osteoporosis in later life due to subnormal bone density.’
- ‘Disappointingly
- I missed out on subnormal by two points.’
- ‘This range is broad enough to create a difference between normal tissue glutathione peroxidase and subnormal levels.’
- ‘It also gives the medical profession a privileged position in determining who is disabled
- as the study and treatment of normal and subnormal human functioning is the specialty of that profession.’
- ‘Stone
- a 67-year-old man of low intelligence
- partially deaf and almost blind
- lived in a house with his mistress Dobinson
- who was ineffectual and inadequate
- and Stone's subnormal son.’
- ‘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
- thus facing the possessor with the need to either shift use or accept a subnormal return.’
- ‘Aldosterone production is preserved in secondary adrenal failure; renin concentrations will therefore be normal
- and Synacthen tests will show a subnormal response to cortisol.’
- ‘The Likely Lads is noteworthy for being one of the few sitcoms that didn't portray ordinary people as educationally subnormal or criminally minded.’
- ‘Pregnancies can be established with subnormal parameters
- illustrating the importance of the female partner's fertility potential and the fact that an abnormal semen analysis cannot be equated with subfertility.’
- ‘I suspect it was in fact a holding pen for all of Brighton's mentally subnormal and alcoholic inhabitants.’
- ‘What is not typical may be exceptional
- and so better than it; but what is not ‘normal’ is infallibly worse than it - abnormal or subnormal.’
- ‘Understandably
- Roy was extremely worried
- not just about the turn of events that day
- but because he knew that his son Stephen was educationally subnormal with the mental age of an 11-year-old.’
- ‘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.’