intubate

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English

Etymology

From in- +‎ tube +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). First appears c. 1612 in the publications of Simon Sturtevant.

Pronunciation

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

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Translations

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

intubate

  1. inflection of intubare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

intubate f pl

  1. feminine plural of intubato

Spanish

Verb

intubate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of intubar combined with te