intubate

English

Etymology

c. 1884, Back-formation from intubation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntjʊbeɪt/, /ˈɪntəbeɪt/, (yod-coalescence) /ˈɪntʃəbeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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

Derived terms

• intubation

Translations

to insert a tube into

• Basque: intubatu
• Catalan: intubar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 插管於／插管于, 插管於／插管于 (chāguǎn yú)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: intuboida
• French: intuber (fr)
• German: intubieren (de)
• Greek: διασωληνώνω (el) (diasolinóno)
• Luxembourgish: intubéieren
• Polish: intubować
• Portuguese: entubar
• Russian: интуби́ровать (ru) impf or pf (intubírovatʹ)
• Spanish: intubar (es)
• Turkish: entübe etmek
• Vietnamese: luồn ống

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