Definition of Intubate

1. Verb. Introduce a cannula or tube into. "Cannulate the blood vessel in the neck"


Definition of Intubate

1. Verb. (transitive medicine) To insert a tube into. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intubate

1. to insert a tube into [v -BATED, -BATING, -BATES]

Medical Definition of Intubate

1. To put a tube in. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intubate

intrusional
intrusionist
intrusionists
intrusions
intrusive
intrusive r
intrusively
intrusiveness
intrusivenesses
intrusives
intrust
intrusted
intrusting
intrusts
ints
intubate (current term)
intubated
intubates
intubating
intubation
intubations
intubator
intuit
intuitable
intuited
intuiting
intuition
intuitional
intuitionalism
intuitionalist

Literary usage of Intubate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of Children by Herman Bernard Sheffield (1921)
"On several occasions we have been invited to intubate children who, ... Recently I was called to intubate a fifteen months old infant supposedly dying from ..."

2. The Year Book of Pediatrics (1903)
"To intubate always, when no professiona•l assistance is at hand, no matter what the age of the ... Between the ages of 4 and 7 I should intubate primarily, ..."

3. Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: Their Dietetic, Hygienic, and Medical by Louis Fischer (1911)
"It was necessary to intubate within ten minutes. ... A mild form of stenosis was noticed and it was deemed safe to n'intubate with an ichthyol alum gelatine ..."

4. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1897)
"I have insisted that men should practice first on the cadaver and then on the dog before attempting to intubate the human subject. ..."

5. Buffalo Medical Journal (1906)
"Tried to intubate at College dispensary, but the tube would not go down. ... Removed the tube after eight days, but could not intubate, there still being ..."

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