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Adjective(1) below normal or average
Noun(1) a person of less than normal intelligence

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(1) 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 .(2) The Likely Lads is noteworthy for being one of the few sitcoms that didn't portray ordinary people as educationally subnormal or criminally minded.(3) Aldosterone production is preserved in secondary adrenal failure; renin concentrations will therefore be normal, and Synacthen tests will show a subnormal response to cortisol.(4) Epilepsy does not shorten life or cause insanity or subnormal intelligence.(5) 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.(6) A significant number risk osteoporosis in later life due to subnormal bone density.(7) What is not typical may be exceptional, and so better than it; but what is not u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510normalu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb is infallibly worse than it - abnormal or subnormal .(8) 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.(9) He's a man of limited intelligence, he's got a very subnormal IQ, and they wanted to hang the crime on someone.(10) 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.(11) 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.(12) Disappointingly, I missed out on subnormal by two points.(13) Patients with unilateral or bilateral paralysis have subnormal exercise capacity, and oxygen consumption (normalized by minute ventilation) at peak exercise is increased.(14) 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.(15) I suspect it was in fact a holding pen for all of Brighton's mentally subnormal and alcoholic inhabitants.(16) This range is broad enough to create a difference between normal tissue glutathione peroxidase and subnormal levels.