intubate
English
Etymology
c. 1884, Back-formation from intubation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪntjʊbeɪt/, /ˈɪntəbeɪt/, (yod-coalescence) /ˈɪntʃəbeɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb
intubate (third-person singular simple present intubates, present participle intubating, simple past and past participle intubated)
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a tube into.
- The doctor is about to intubate the patient's trachea.
- 1886 July 6, J. K. White, “HINTS IN PRACTICE”, in Canadian Practitioner:
- you have no right to withhold it, unless you intubate. Intubation of the larynx I have never tried, but I have a tube ready in my office ever since I read an article on it a short time ago
Derived terms
Translations
to insert a tube into
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Italian
Verb
intubate
- inflection of intubare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
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