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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>Registration No.
333-___________&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>&nbsp;UNITED STATES</b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<b>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>Washington, D.C.&nbsp; 20549</b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>FORM S-8</b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><u>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</u></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>STRYKER CORPORATION</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Michigan</p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>38-1239739</p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or
  organization)</p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>2825 Airview Boulevard,
   Kalamazoo, Michigan</p>
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  height:.2in'>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>49002</p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>&nbsp;(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</p>
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  height:.2in'>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>&nbsp;(Zip Code)</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
2008 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Full title of the Plan)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><u>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</u></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THOMAS R. WINKEL</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Vice President and Secretary</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Stryker Corporation</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>2825 Airview Boulevard, Kalamazoo,   Michigan&nbsp; 49002</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Name and address of agent for service)</p>



<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(269) 385-2600</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for
service)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><u>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</u></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Indicate by check mark
whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a
non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.&nbsp; See the definitions of
&quot;large accelerated filer,&quot; &quot;accelerated filer&quot; and &quot;smaller reporting company&quot;
in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 of the Exchange Act.&nbsp; (Check one):</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>

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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:left; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Large accelerated filer</p>
  </td>
  <td style='border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:11px;padding-left:5.4pt; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-top:0in; padding-bottom:0in' bordercolor="#000000">
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
	X</p>
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  <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">

  </td>
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  <p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Accelerated filer</p>
  </td>
  <td style='border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:8px;padding-left:5.4pt; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-top:0in; padding-bottom:0in' bordercolor="#000000">
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>
  </td>
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:left; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Non-accelerated filer</p>
  </td>
  <td style='border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:11px;padding-left:5.4pt; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-top:0in; padding-bottom:0in' bordercolor="#000000">
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:255px;border-left-style:solid; border-left-width:1px; padding-left:5.4pt; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-top:0in; padding-bottom:0in'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="2">(Do not check if a smaller
  reporting company)</font></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:192px;padding-left:5.4pt; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-top:0in; padding-bottom:0in'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Smaller Reporting Company</p>
  </td>
  <td style='border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:8px;padding-left:5.4pt; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-top:0in; padding-bottom:0in' bordercolor="#000000">
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



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  padding:0in;height:61.9pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Title of</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Securities to</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>be registered</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-left:medium none; border-right:medium none; border-top:medium none; width:121px;border-bottom:1.0pt solid black;
  padding:0in;height:61.9pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Amount</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>to be</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Registered<sup>(1)</sup></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-left:medium none; border-right:medium none; border-top:medium none; width:132px;border-bottom:1.0pt solid black;
  padding:0in;height:61.9pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Proposed</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Maximum</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Offering Price</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Per Share<sup> (2)</sup></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-left:medium none; border-right:medium none; border-top:medium none; width:126px;border-bottom:1.0pt solid black;
  padding:0in;height:61.9pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Proposed</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Maximum</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Aggregate</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Offering Price<sup> (2)</sup></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-left:medium none; border-right:medium none; border-top:medium none; width:115px;border-bottom:1.0pt solid black;
  padding:0in;height:61.9pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Amount of</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Registration</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Fee</p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">

  </td>
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  height:.05pt'>

  <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">

  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:132px;padding:0in;
  height:.05pt'>

  <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">

  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:126px;padding:0in;
  height:.05pt'>

  <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">

  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:115px;padding:0in;
  height:.05pt'>

  <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">

  </td>
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Common Stock,</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>par value $.10</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>per share</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:121px;padding:0in;
  height:61.9pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>5,000,000</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>shares</p>
  </td>
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  height:61.9pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>$65.66</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:126px;padding:0in;
  height:61.9pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>$328,300,000</p>
  </td>
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
	$12,902</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-16.2pt'>(1)&nbsp;Includes an indeterminate
number of additional shares that may be issued to adjust the number of shares
issued pursuant to the Plan described herein as the result of any future stock
split, stock dividend, or similar adjustment to Stryker's Common Stock.</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-16.2pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(2)&nbsp;Estimated solely for the
purpose of calculating the registration fee based, pursuant to Rule 457(c) and
(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, upon the average high and low
price of the Common Stock on April 18, 2008 as reported on the &nbsp;New York
Stock Exchange-Composite Transactions.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-16.2pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-16.2pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:19.8pt;text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>PART II</b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:19.8pt;text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.55in;text-align:center;
text-indent:-.55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</b></p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b>Item
3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Incorporation of Documents by Reference</b></p>



<p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The
following documents, descriptions, amendments and reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the &quot;Commission&quot;) by Stryker
Corporation (&quot;Stryker&quot; or the &quot;Company&quot;) are incorporated
by reference into this Registration Statement:</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:1.1in'>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stryker's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in'>(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stryker's Current Reports on Form 8-K dated February 13, 2008
(filed February 13, 2008) and April 1, 2008 (filed April 7, 2008); and</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in'>(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The
description of the Stryker Common Stock contained in the Registration Statement
on Form 8-A filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act on July 1, 1997 and
in any amendment or report filed by Stryker for the purpose of updating such
description.</p>



<p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All
documents subsequently filed by Stryker pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14
and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &quot;Exchange
Act&quot;), prior to the filing of a post-effective
amendment that indicates that all securities offered pursuant hereto have been
sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Any statement contained in a document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this registration
statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
registration statement to the extent that a statement contained in this
registration statement, or in any other subsequently filed document that also is
or is deemed to be incorporated by reference into this registration statement,
modifies or supersedes such prior statement.&nbsp; Any statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of this registration statement.</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>Item 4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Description of Securities</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Not Applicable.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>Item 5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interests of Named Experts and
Counsel</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Not Applicable.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>Item 6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Indemnification of Directors and
Officers&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The
following is a brief summary of certain indemnification provisions of the
Michigan Business Corporation Act (the &quot;MBCA&quot;) and the Company's
Restated Articles of Incorporation (the &quot;Restated Articles&quot;) and
By-Laws.&nbsp; The summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the
provisions of MBCA, the Restated Articles and the By-Laws.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The
MBCA permits a Michigan corporation to include in its articles of incorporation
a provision that a director is not personally liable to the corporation or its
shareholders for monetary damages for a breach of the director's fiduciary duty
of care under certain circumstances.&nbsp; The Company's Restated Articles
provide that the personal liability of the Company's directors to the Company
and its shareholders shall be limited and eliminated to the full extent
authorized or permitted under the MBCA as from time to time in effect, thus
automatically incorporating any future revisions of the MBCA with respect to
director liability without the necessity of any further action by the Company's
shareholders.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In
general, the MBCA allows a corporation to indemnify its directors and officers
if the director or officer acted in good faith and in a manner such person
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
Company or its shareholders and with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was
unlawful.&nbsp; The Company's By-Laws provide that the Company shall indemnify
its directors and certain officers as designated by the Board of Directors from
time to time to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by law, including
advancement of expenses, and may, to the extent authorized from time to time by
the Board of Directors, provide rights to indemnification and to the
advancement of expenses to other officers, employees and agents.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Stryker has indemnification agreements with all of its directors
and certain designated officers which provide, among other things, the
indemnitees with rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses to the
fullest extent permitted by law in connection with proceedings related to the
indemnitees' service to Stryker in their current positions or actions taken
during such service.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stryker
has a directors and officers liability insurance policy designed to reimburse
the Company, subject to certain exclusions, for payments made pursuant to the
indemnification provisions set forth above.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>





<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>Item 7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exemption from Registration Claimed</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Not Applicable.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>Item 8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exhibits</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Instruments
defining the rights of security holders, including indentures.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2008
Employee Stock Purchase Plan - incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99(i) to
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 (Commission
File No. 000-09165).</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Composite
copy of Restated Articles of Incorporation as amended through April 19, 2000 -
incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i) to the Company's Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2000 (Commission File No. 000-09165).</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By-Laws -
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(ii) to the Company's Form 8-K dated
October 24, 2007 (Commission File No. 000-09165).</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Opinion re
legality.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Opinion of Warner Norcross &amp; Judd LLP, including consent.</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify'>23.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Consent of experts and counsel.</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in'>(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Consent
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in'>(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The
consent of Warner Norcross &amp; Judd LLP is contained in the opinion filed as
Exhibit 5 of this Registration Statement.</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify'>24.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Power
of Attorney.</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify'>Included on the signature page hereof.&nbsp; </p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>Item 9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Undertakings</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Stryker hereby undertakes:</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To file, during
any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment
to this Registration Statement:</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To
include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of
1933;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To
reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date
of this Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
change in the information set forth in this Registration Statement;</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To
include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to
such information in this Registration Statement;</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.1in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) shall not
apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the
Commission by Stryker pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that
are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That, for the
purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each
such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To remove from
registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being
registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stryker
hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each filing of Stryker's Annual Report pursuant to
Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in
this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may
be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of Stryker, Stryker
has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable.&nbsp; In the event that a claim
for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by Stryker
of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of
Stryker in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is
asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, Stryker will, unless in the opinion of its counsel
the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be
governed by the final adjudication of such issue.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;page-break-after:avoid; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>SIGNATURES</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;page-break-after:avoid; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant, Stryker
Corporation, certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, on April 23, 2008.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.85in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>STRYKER CORPORATION</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.85in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.85in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>By:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>/s/
THOMAS R. WINKEL&nbsp; </u></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.85in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Thomas R. Winkel</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.85in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Vice President and
Secretary&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<br
clear=all style='page-break-before:always'>




<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>POWER OF ATTORNEY</b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The
undersigned, in his capacity as a director or officer, or both, as the case may
be, of Stryker Corporation, does hereby appoint Thomas R. Winkel and Dean H.
Bergy, or either of them, with full power of substitution, as attorneys or
attorney to sign a Form S-8 Registration Statement of Stryker Corporation for
the 2008 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and any and all pre-effective or
post-effective amendments to such Registration Statement, and to file the same
with all exhibits thereto and all other documents in connection therewith with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.&nbsp; Each attorney shall have power and
authority to do and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in
any and all capacities, every act to be done in the premises as fully and to
all intents and purposes as the undersigned could do in person, and the
undersigned hereby ratifies and approves the acts of such attorneys.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>



<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement
has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on April
23, 2008.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>



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  <p class=MsoNormal>Signature</p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal><u>/s/ STEPHEN P. MACMILLAN&nbsp; </u></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
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  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.4pt'>President, Chief Executive Officer and Director</p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>Stephen P.
  MacMillan</p>
  </td>
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  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.4pt'>(Principal Executive Officer)</p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal><u>/s/ DEAN H. BERGY&nbsp; </u></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
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  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.4pt'>Vice President and Chief Financial Officer</p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>Dean H. Bergy</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
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  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.4pt'>(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)</p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal><u>/s/ JOHN W. BROWN&nbsp; </u></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
  height:12.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.4pt'>Director</p>
  </td>
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  <td valign=top style='width:302px;padding:0in;
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  <p class=MsoNormal>John W. Brown</p>
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  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
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  <p class=MsoNormal><u>/s/ HOWARD E. COX, JR. </u></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
  height:12.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.4pt'>Director</p>
  </td>
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  <td valign=top style='width:302px;padding:0in;
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  <p class=MsoNormal>Howard E. Cox, Jr.</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
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  <p class=MsoNormal><u>/s/ DONALD M. ENGELMAN&nbsp; </u></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
  height:12.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.4pt'>Director</p>
  </td>
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  <td valign=top style='width:302px;padding:0in;
  height:12.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal>Donald M.
  Engelman</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
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  </td>
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  </td>
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  <p class=MsoNormal><u>/s/ LOUISE L. FRANCESCONI&nbsp; </u></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
  height:12.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.4pt'>Director</p>
  </td>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>Louise L.
  Francesconi</p>
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  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
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  </td>
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  </td>
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  </td>
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  <p class=MsoNormal><u>/s/ WILLIAM U. PARFET </u></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
  height:12.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.4pt'>Director</p>
  </td>
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  <td valign=top style='width:302px;padding:0in;
  height:12.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal>William U.
  Parfet</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
  height:12.4pt'>

  </td>
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  <td valign=top style='width:302px;padding:0in;
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  </td>
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  height:12.4pt'>

  </td>
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  </td>
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  <p class=MsoNormal><u>/s/ RONDA E. STRYKER&nbsp; </u></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='width:382px;padding:0in;
  height:12.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.4pt'>Director</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>EXHIBIT INDEX</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Exhibit</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Instruments defining the rights of security holders, including indentures.</p>
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..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2008
Employee Stock Purchase Plan - Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99(i) &nbsp;to
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 (Commission
File No. 000-09165).</p>
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..55in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Composite
copy of Restated Articles of Incorporation as amended through April 19, 2000 -
incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i) to the Company's Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2000 (Commission File No. 000-09165).</p>
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Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(ii) to the Company's Form 8-K dated
October 24, 2007 (Commission File No. 000-09165).</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Opinion re legality.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Opinion
of Warner Norcross &amp; Judd LLP, including consent.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>23.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Consent of experts and
counsel.</p>
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of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.</p>
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consent of Warner Norcross &amp; Judd LLP is contained in the opinion filed as
Exhibit 5 to this Registration Statement.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>24.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Power of Attorney.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Included on the signature page hereof.</p>





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Registration No.
333-___________
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
STRYKER CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Michigan
38-1239739
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or
  organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
2825 Airview Boulevard,
   Kalamazoo, Michigan
49002
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
2008 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
(Full title of the Plan)
THOMAS R. WINKEL
Vice President and Secretary
Stryker Corporation
2825 Airview Boulevard, Kalamazoo,   Michigan  49002
(Name and address of agent for service)
(269) 385-2600
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for
service)
Indicate by check mark
whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a
non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See the definitions of
"large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company"
in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.  (Check one):
Large accelerated filer
X
Accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer
(Do not check if a smaller
  reporting company)
Smaller Reporting Company
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of
Securities to
be registered
Amount
to be
Registered
(1)
Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share
(2)
Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
(2)
Amount of
Registration
Fee
Common Stock,
par value $.10
per share
5,000,000
shares
$65.66
$328,300,000
$12,902
(1) Includes an indeterminate
number of additional shares that may be issued to adjust the number of shares
issued pursuant to the Plan described herein as the result of any future stock
split, stock dividend, or similar adjustment to Stryker's Common Stock.
(2) Estimated solely for the
purpose of calculating the registration fee based, pursuant to Rule 457(c) and
(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, upon the average high and low
price of the Common Stock on April 18, 2008 as reported on the  New York
Stock Exchange-Composite Transactions.
PART II
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
3.                       
Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The
following documents, descriptions, amendments and reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") by Stryker
Corporation ("Stryker" or the "Company") are incorporated
by reference into this Registration Statement:
(a)    Stryker's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007;
(b)    Stryker's Current Reports on Form 8-K dated February 13, 2008
(filed February 13, 2008) and April 1, 2008 (filed April 7, 2008); and
(c)    The
description of the Stryker Common Stock contained in the Registration Statement
on Form 8-A filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act on July 1, 1997 and
in any amendment or report filed by Stryker for the purpose of updating such
description.
All
documents subsequently filed by Stryker pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14
and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
Act"), prior to the filing of a post-effective
amendment that indicates that all securities offered pursuant hereto have been
sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Any statement contained in a document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this registration
statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
registration statement to the extent that a statement contained in this
registration statement, or in any other subsequently filed document that also is
or is deemed to be incorporated by reference into this registration statement,
modifies or supersedes such prior statement.  Any statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of this registration statement.
Item 4.    Description of Securities
Not Applicable.
Item 5.    Interests of Named Experts and
Counsel
Not Applicable.
Item 6.    Indemnification of Directors and
Officers
The
following is a brief summary of certain indemnification provisions of the
Michigan Business Corporation Act (the "MBCA") and the Company's
Restated Articles of Incorporation (the "Restated Articles") and
By-Laws.  The summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the
provisions of MBCA, the Restated Articles and the By-Laws.
The
MBCA permits a Michigan corporation to include in its articles of incorporation
a provision that a director is not personally liable to the corporation or its
shareholders for monetary damages for a breach of the director's fiduciary duty
of care under certain circumstances.  The Company's Restated Articles
provide that the personal liability of the Company's directors to the Company
and its shareholders shall be limited and eliminated to the full extent
authorized or permitted under the MBCA as from time to time in effect, thus
automatically incorporating any future revisions of the MBCA with respect to
director liability without the necessity of any further action by the Company's
shareholders.
In
general, the MBCA allows a corporation to indemnify its directors and officers
if the director or officer acted in good faith and in a manner such person
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
Company or its shareholders and with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was
unlawful.  The Company's By-Laws provide that the Company shall indemnify
its directors and certain officers as designated by the Board of Directors from
time to time to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by law, including
advancement of expenses, and may, to the extent authorized from time to time by
the Board of Directors, provide rights to indemnification and to the
advancement of expenses to other officers, employees and agents.
Stryker has indemnification agreements with all of its directors
and certain designated officers which provide, among other things, the
indemnitees with rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses to the
fullest extent permitted by law in connection with proceedings related to the
indemnitees' service to Stryker in their current positions or actions taken
during such service.
Stryker
has a directors and officers liability insurance policy designed to reimburse
the Company, subject to certain exclusions, for payments made pursuant to the
indemnification provisions set forth above.
Item 7.    Exemption from Registration Claimed
Not Applicable.
Item 8.    Exhibits
4.         Instruments
defining the rights of security holders, including indentures.
(i)    2008
Employee Stock Purchase Plan - incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99(i) to
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 (Commission
File No. 000-09165).
(ii)    Composite
copy of Restated Articles of Incorporation as amended through April 19, 2000 -
incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i) to the Company's Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2000 (Commission File No. 000-09165).
(ii)     By-Laws -
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(ii) to the Company's Form 8-K dated
October 24, 2007 (Commission File No. 000-09165).
5.         Opinion re
legality.
Opinion of Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, including consent.
23.      
Consent of experts and counsel.
(i)    Consent
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
(ii)    The
consent of Warner Norcross & Judd LLP is contained in the opinion filed as
Exhibit 5 of this Registration Statement.
24.       Power
of Attorney.
Included on the signature page hereof.
Item 9.    Undertakings
Stryker hereby undertakes:
(1)    To file, during
any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment
to this Registration Statement:
(i)    To
include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of
1933;
(ii)    To
reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date
of this Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
change in the information set forth in this Registration Statement;
(iii)    To
include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to
such information in this Registration Statement;
provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) shall not
apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the
Commission by Stryker pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that
are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.
(2)    That, for the
purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each
such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.
(3)    To remove from
registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being
registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
Stryker
hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each filing of Stryker's Annual Report pursuant to
Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in
this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may
be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of Stryker, Stryker
has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim
for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by Stryker
of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of
Stryker in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is
asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, Stryker will, unless in the opinion of its counsel
the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be
governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant, Stryker
Corporation, certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, on April 23, 2008.
STRYKER CORPORATION
By:
/s/
THOMAS R. WINKEL
Thomas R. Winkel
Vice President and
Secretary
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The
undersigned, in his capacity as a director or officer, or both, as the case may
be, of Stryker Corporation, does hereby appoint Thomas R. Winkel and Dean H.
Bergy, or either of them, with full power of substitution, as attorneys or
attorney to sign a Form S-8 Registration Statement of Stryker Corporation for
the 2008 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and any and all pre-effective or
post-effective amendments to such Registration Statement, and to file the same
with all exhibits thereto and all other documents in connection therewith with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Each attorney shall have power and
authority to do and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in
any and all capacities, every act to be done in the premises as fully and to
all intents and purposes as the undersigned could do in person, and the
undersigned hereby ratifies and approves the acts of such attorneys.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement
has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on April
23, 2008.
Signature
Title
/s/ STEPHEN P. MACMILLAN
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Stephen P.
  MacMillan
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ DEAN H. BERGY
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Dean H. Bergy
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ JOHN W. BROWN
Director
John W. Brown
/s/ HOWARD E. COX, JR.
Director
Howard E. Cox, Jr.
/s/ DONALD M. ENGELMAN
Director
Donald M.
  Engelman
/s/ LOUISE L. FRANCESCONI
Director
Louise L.
  Francesconi
/s/ WILLIAM U. PARFET
Director
William U.
  Parfet
/s/ RONDA E. STRYKER
Director
Ronda E.
  Stryker
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
4.        
Instruments defining the rights of security holders, including indentures.
(i)    2008
Employee Stock Purchase Plan - Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99(i)  to
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 (Commission
File No. 000-09165).
(ii)    Composite
copy of Restated Articles of Incorporation as amended through April 19, 2000 -
incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i) to the Company's Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2000 (Commission File No. 000-09165).
(ii)      By-Laws -
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(ii) to the Company's Form 8-K dated
October 24, 2007 (Commission File No. 000-09165).
5.        
Opinion re legality.
Opinion
of Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, including consent.
23.       Consent of experts and
counsel.
(i)    Consent
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
(ii)    The
consent of Warner Norcross & Judd LLP is contained in the opinion filed as
Exhibit 5 to this Registration Statement.
24.       Power of Attorney.
Included on the signature page hereof.