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The insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ
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intubation
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Wiktionary
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n. (context medicine English) The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.
WordNet
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n. the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ [syn: cannulation , canulation , cannulization , cannulisation , canulization , canulisation ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intubation \In`tu*ba"tion\, n. [Pref. in- in + tube.] (Med.) The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Intubation (sometimes entubation ) is a medical procedure involving the insertion of a tube into the body. Patients are generally anesthetized beforehand. Examples include tracheal intubation , and the balloon tamponade with a Sengstaken-Blakemore tube ...
Usage examples of intubation.
Yale medical student and had never really thought of fighting until I got shut out of an endotracheal intubation seminar and signed up for a boxing class instead.
Intravenously, the succinyl-choline, which relaxed the body muscles and made way for the endotracheal intubation, affording Dr.
She had no intention of cutting the patient until the anesthesiologist completed the intubation.
They had all rehearsed in resuscitation procedures: mouth-to-mouth, sternum compression to get the heart pumping, electroshock paddles, endotracheal intubation, cricothyroidotomy, tracheostomy.