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Gallifreyans could survive some falls which would shatter the bones of humans. The [[Tenth Doctor]] survived a fall from a low flying spaceship through a glass skylight and was able to stand and move afterwards. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') However, the fall from a radio telescope dish was enough to cause the [[Fourth Doctor]] to regenerate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
Gallifreyans could survive some falls which would shatter the bones of humans. The [[Tenth Doctor]] survived a fall from a low flying spaceship through a glass skylight and was able to stand and move afterwards. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') However, the fall from a radio telescope dish was enough to cause the [[Fourth Doctor]] to regenerate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
The [[First Doctor]] was able to survive exposure to the [[Time Destructor]], which [[age]]d the [[human]] [[Sara Kingdom]] to [[death]]. ([[TV]]: "[[Destruction of Time]]") "Already" being [[The Doctor's age|over 700 years old]], the Doctor suggested that "a few hundred one way or the other" would not matter to him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mutation of Time (novelisation)|The Mutation of Time]]'')


If pushed from a height into a liquid, as the [[Fifth Doctor]] was during a scuffle in the reactor room of [[Sea Base 4]] when a guard was fighting him on a gangway over the cooling tank, a Time Lord body was capable of protecting them, sealing up the lungs to conserve air for a short period. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (novelisation)|Warriors of the Deep]]'')
If pushed from a height into a liquid, as the [[Fifth Doctor]] was during a scuffle in the reactor room of [[Sea Base 4]] when a guard was fighting him on a gangway over the cooling tank, a Time Lord body was capable of protecting them, sealing up the lungs to conserve air for a short period. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (novelisation)|Warriors of the Deep]]'')
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