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Mitchener is one of more than 1,000 vets who have since logged on as the company moves to mainstream the use of stem and stemlike cells to treat arthritis and tendon and ligament injuries.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1992 Snyder announced in print that his lab had removed stemlike cells from mouse brains and had grown them in a culture.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he dropped his head on one side, it looked too heavy for the stemlike neck, but it conveyed an impression of immense intellectual power.

From The Second Deluge by Serviss, Garrett Putman

More curious grew his head, stemlike his limbs, and hark!

From Memorial Day and Other Verse by Reed, Helen Leah

The flowers are disks and squares of different bright-colored tissue-paper, each one with its centre pinched together and twisted into a stemlike piece, which is pushed down into a buttonhole-twist spool.

From Little Folks' Handy Book by Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle)