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intubate

verb

C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

To insert a tube into the trachea to maintain an open airway and allow ventilation.

The patient was intubated and placed on a ventilator in resus.

Topic: Emergency in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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