Definition of "stem-cell" [stem-cell]

• Attributive form of stem cell, noun. (adjective)

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• "I then needed urgently to begin what would be nearly a year of hardcore treatment: in-patient chemotherapy, dripped through a Hickman line for 72 hours at a time; a stem-cell transplant so brutal it carried a mortality rate of its own and, finally, radiotherapy."
• "I nearly died when I had my stem-cell transplant, and with a battered immune system spent the first year after treatment ill with shingles, tonsillitis, sinusitis, swine flu and any number of other tedious, mind-numbing complaints."
• "He has restored federal funding for stem-cell research, and for abortions abroad."