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Adam's apple
The popular name given to the projection in the fore-part of the neck formed by the anterior extremity of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx. The Adam's apple is so called from the notion that it was caused by a bit of the forbidden fruit which stuck in Adam's throat.
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