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intubate

intubate

English

Verb

intubate (third-person singular simple present intubates, present participle intubating, simple past and past participle intubated)

  1. (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

Translations


Italian

Verb

intubate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of intubare
  2. second-person plural imperative of intubare
  3. feminine plural of intubato