What is "sublethal"

Usage examples of "sublethal".

We hit the pavement with a sublethal impact and I was flung to the deck.

Via bio accumulation harmless or sublethal doses in lower organisms can collectively become damaging or fatal to consumers higher in the food chain.

Alternatively, my magic cyborg defensive system might diagnose the punch as sublethal, and do nothing.

Josun thought, was scabfish toxin, like quite a lot of other poisons, able to produce hallucinatory states in sublethal amounts?

Since these compounds are not normally found in large quantities in the nutrient vats, the result is not necessarily poisonous, but it would be very difficult and expensive to keep the bacteria from building up sublethal doses over a long enough time.

Sure, there were permits available, but mostly those were for hand wands or stunners or sublethal dart guns, spetsdods and the like.

In the tiers of seats, natives were scrambling wildly, stung by the sublethal charges that crackled among them.