🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

intubare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: in.tuˈba.re

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Intubate/ˈɪn.tjuː.beɪt/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"È stato necessario intubare il paziente per la chirurgia."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To insert a tube into a patient's trachea, typically to maintain an open airway or to administer anesthetic gases and mechanical ventilation.

    "The emergency team prepared to intubate the patient immediately upon arrival at the trauma center."
  2. 2

    To insert a tube into any hollow bodily organ or canal for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

    "The specialist decided to intubate the gastrointestinal tract to relieve the obstruction."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin prefix 'in-' (into, in) combined with the medieval Latin 'tubus' (pipe, tube), entering medical nomenclature in the late 19th century. It evolved as a clinical descriptor for the insertion of a tube into a bodily canal or hollow organ, specifically the trachea for ventilation.

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