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Adam's apple
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Adam's apple: see larynx larynx (lâr`ĭngks), organ of voice in mammals. Commonly known as the voice box, the larynx is a tubular chamber about 2 in.
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Adam's apple
the visible projection of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx at the front of the neck


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The soap-box orators talked in the bitter cold at Marble Arch with their mackintoshes turned up against their Adam's apples, and all down the road the cad cars waited for the right easy girls, and the cheap prostitutes sat hopelessly in the shadows, and the blackmailers kept an eye open on the grass where the deeds of darkness were quietly and unsatisfactorily accomplished.
Long-track skaters, who do not wear helmets like short-track skaters do, sport a hooded suit that squishes down their hair, ears, and even their Adam's apples.
 
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