SUBNORMAL • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Subnormal

... the big cities has produced the child criminal. He is clearly marked and well defined. He is often subnormal even down to idiocy. In most cases he is the result of heredity. Many times he may have fair intelligence, but this is usually attached to an unstable, defective nervous system that cannot do its proper work, and he has had no expert treatment and attention. He ...

— Crime: Its Cause and Treatment • Clarence Darrow

... is coming on. This is called the paralytic stage. The loss of flesh is extremely rapid, and even during the short course of the disease the animal becomes exceedingly emaciated. The temperature is never elevated, it usually remaining about normal or even subnormal. Finally, there is complete paralysis of the hind quarters, the animal being unable to rise, and but for irregular convulsive movements lies in a comatose condition and dies usually from the fourth to the sixth day after the appearance of ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture