[SUB- 14.] Less than normal, below the normal. Chiefly Med.
1890. Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., Subnormal, less than usual.
1897. Month, Sept., 329. All subnormal or supernormal phenomena of the soul.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 728. The temperature [in colic] is usually rather subnormal.
Hence Subnormality, the condition of being subnormal.
1890. Lancet, 11 Jan., 105/1. Muscle soreness, and subnormality of temperature on the fourth day.
