intubate

Etymology

c. 1884, Back-formation from intubation.

verb

  1. (transitive, medicine) To insert a tube into.
    The doctor is about to intubate the patient's trachea.
    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 July 6, 1886, J. K. White, “HINTS IN PRACTICE”, in Canadian Practitioner

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