(n.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
(2) Hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropinism, and subnormal plasma testosterone were found in a 65-year-old patient who had an enlarged sella turcica, complained of fatigue, and addmitted to decreased sexual interest and potency.
(3) The concentration of alpha-tocopherol in serum was subnormal in the TG group and that of carotene in both groups of patients, and the values were also significantly lower in the TG group than in the PG group.
(4) Elevation of testosterone levels from a subnormal to a normal range in response to clomiphene administered for seven days suggests that the defect is functional and reversible and that the drug may be useful in treatment of sexual dysfunction in this group of patients.
(5) In the whole group, the recurrence of severe mental subnormality was high: 1 in 8 for brothers and 1 in 25 for sisters.
(6) Monosynaptic excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) evoked in rat spinal motoneurons by stimulation of a muscle nerve are enhanced during the first few days after section of the muscle nerve before subsiding to subnormal levels.
(7) In clinical material studied with amidolytic assays, subnormal At-III levels were found in hereditary deficiency, liver disease, disseminated intravascular coagulation and in some cases with acute thrombosis.
(8) In all patients serum calcium fell to normal or subnormal levels within 48 h of attempted ablation.
(9) Especially, ten of twelve cranial irradiated patients showed subnormal IQ scores.
(10) All 5 patients with a functioning thyroid adenoma had undetectable serum TSH levels in the morning and during the night, and subnormal or absent TSH responses to TRH.
(11) At the time when the number of mitoses had fallen to a subnormal level due to galactose-feeding (i.e., after 7 days), lenses of prolactin-treated animals exhibited less of a decrease in mitotic activity.
(12) An account is given of two separate outbreaks of diphtheria amongst mentally subnormal patients and nursing staff.
(13) Subnormal levels were found in more than a third of patients with acute leukaemias, lymphomas, glandular fever, myelofibrosis, and polycythaemia, and in the same proportion of patients receiving cytotoxic drugs, and also in those with a polymorph leucocytosis and those with purpura.
(14) Serial cultures in the responsive patient showed that colony growth normalized during remission when "suppressor" cells were absent and that colony growth was subnormal during a later relapse when cortisol-resistant "suppressor" cells were present.
(15) Total protein S (TPS) and free protein S (FPS) did not recover until day 7, whereas heparin cofactor II (HC-II) remained at subnormal levels throughout the study.
(16) A pronounced blood glucose decline and a subnormal increase in heart rate during insulin infusion were obtained in patients with autonomic dysfunction.
(17) Though cardiac output is subnormal, Fontan type procedure is a safe and effective operation, and intermediate-term state is satisfactory without any signs of heart failure.
(18) More than 50% of excessively subnormal motility indexes improved to a level approaching or surpassing normal, making motility the single most significant aspect of the effects of ligation on semen quality.
(19) Thus they have two advantages: (a) bioreactive hormone is measured rather than a composite of antigenic determinants characteristic of part of the hormone molecule and (b) their increased sensitivity allows discrimination between low normal and subnormal concentrations of the circulating hormone.
(20) However, serum-folate measured by two assay methods was subnormal in 83% of the samples; red-cell folate was subnormal in 40%.
Unusual
Definition:
(a.) Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(2) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
(3) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(4) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(5) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
(6) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
(7) HCECs display an unusual combination of cytokeratin IFs and neurofilaments, together with vimentin, and are heterogeneous with respect to their IF makeup.
(8) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
(9) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.
(10) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(11) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
(12) Caulobacter flagella are unusual in that they contain two different flagellin subunits.
(13) The appearance of unusual isoenzyme patterns in newborn infants and in pregnant women in comparison with normal adults.
(14) This case is unusual in that it demonstrated no malignant epithelium beyond that of a borderline tumor, but met the criteria of malignancy because of its invasiveness and metastasis.
(15) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(16) Clinicians should be aware of this new and unusual association of a cerebral glioma and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
(17) However, it does not and we therefore propose the presence of an unusual DNA conformation in these regions.
(18) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
(19) An unusual case of myopathy due to lipid storage in Type I muscle fibers is described.
(20) The model electron density map, calculated to a resolution of approximately 35 A, shows an unusually high protein content in the membranes.