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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intubate

1610s, "to form into tubes," from in- (2) "in" + Latin tuba "tube" (see tuba) + -ate (2). Medical sense is from 1889. Related: Intubated; intubation.

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intubate

vb. (context transitive medicine English) To insert a tube into.

WordNet
intubate

v. introduce a cannule or tube into; "Cannulate the blood vessel in the neck" [syn: cannulate, cannulize, cannulise, canulate]

Usage examples of "intubate".

They give her IV fluids to prevent hypovolemic shock, and intubate her.

Even with the baby intubated and on oxygen, the staff was still having difficulty filling up his lungs.

Ford entered the ICU just after eight-thirty, Sunny was intubated and breathing with the help of a respirator.

The head rolled an inch or two from the intubated stump of the neck and came to a stop.

His coworker on command pulled a box from inside the vehicle, and, as Brian watched, Atef was intubated and bagged.

Once intubated, Luchesi was fed oxygen and nitrous oxide, a mild anesthetic.

From his inability to move, Adam vaguely supposed that one of the drugs being given him must be a deep muscle relaxant of some kind - perhaps even one of the curariform substances that paralyzed voluntary movement and, in higher doses, interfered with breathing - for at some point, Mallory had intubated him.

Tyson was intubated immediately and the doctor ordered a CT scan as well as a head and spinal scan.