Some physiological damage, but functional.
"No physiological damage to Dobius that we can pinpoint," McCoy said.
Poikilohydry is the capacity to tolerate dehydration to low cell or tissue water content and to recover from it without physiological damage.
Unless a bullet directly damages or disrupts the central nervous system, a person or animal will not be instantly and completely incapacitated by physiological damage.
There is some evidence that low salinities induced by freshwater may result in physiological damage to corals.
They often live in the gastrointestinal tract of their hosts, but may also burrow into other organs, where they induce physiological damages.
It also causes other physiological damage in plants; tomatoes, for instance, ripen unevenly, with the same fruit displaying both red and green areas.
Forgetting that occurs through physiological damage or dilapidation to the brain are referred to as organic causes of forgetting.
Miles could hardly keep the whole crew stunned for a week or more, crammed in their little prison, without doing them serious physiological damage.