reintubate

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ intubate.

Verb

reintubate (third-person singular simple present reintubates, present participle reintubating, simple past and past participle reintubated)

  1. To intubate again.
    • 2015 June 17, M. Rafiq et al., “A Case of Transient Local Anesthetic Induced Bilateral Vocal Cord Palsy”, in Case Reports in Surgery‎[1], volume 2015, →DOI:
      The patient, thus, was reintubated and after 12 hours she met the extubation parameters and so she was extubated successfully.
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