different between extubation vs excubation

extubation

English

Noun

extubation (countable and uncountable, plural extubations)

  1. (medicine) The removal of a tube inserted by intubation.

Related terms

  • extubate

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excubation

English

Etymology

From Latin excubatio, from excubare (to lie out on guard), from ex (out) + cubare (to lie down).

Noun

excubation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A keeping watch; a vigil.
    • 1840, Philonauta, Naval Progression, or the Midshipman of the Old School
      Infinitely more so than the lucubrations
      Is the necessity there is for excubations.
      Hard's the duty in three watches—worse watch and watch—
      Expos'd to the elements without a thatch []

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