adam's apple

The lump at the front of the neck, in men and some women, that is caused by the angle of the thyroid cartilage surrounding the larynx.

Webster's 1913 dictionary states that the term "… is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit, (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent."

"I can see your adam's apple. Sometimes I wonder who thought of calling it an "adam's apple". They must have felt really cool though when everyone started calling it that."

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