Adam's apple

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Ad·am's apple

(ăd′əmz)

The slight projection at the front of the throat formed by the largest cartilage of the larynx, usually more prominent in men than in women.

[Ultimately translation of French pomme d'Adam, pomegranate, Adam's apple (sense influenced by Arabic rummāna, pomegranate, Adam's apple) : pomme, apple + de, of + Adam, Adam.]

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Adam's apple

(Anatomy) the visible projection of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx at the front of the neck

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Ad′am's ap`ple

a projection of the thyroid cartilage at the front of the neck.

[1745–55]

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Noun	1.	Adam's apple - tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand coffee rose, crape jasmine, crepe gardenia, crepe jasmine, East Indian rosebay, Nero's crown, pinwheel flower, Tabernaemontana divaricate genus Tabernaemontana, Tabernaemontana - evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	2.	Adam's apple - the largest cartilage of the larynx thyroid cartilage cartilage, gristle - tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults larynx, voice box - a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech

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Adam's apple

n → pomo d'Adamo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

Ad·am's ap·ple

n. nuez de Adán.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

Adam’s apple

n manzana or nuez f de Adán

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He was slender to emaciation, cavernously checked, roll after roll of skin, no longer encasing flesh or muscle, hanging grotesquely down his neck and swathing the Adam's apple so that only occasionally, with queer swallowing motions, did it peep out of the mummy-wrappings of skin and sink back again from view.

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He spotted victim Carl Dillon sitting in the living room and slashed him across the throat -- damaging two jugular veins, his Adam's apple and voicebox and left him needing 11 staples in his neck.

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He also wrapped a scarf around his neck to cover his Adam's apple.

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They severed his carotid artery, jugular vein and "disrupted" his airway just above the Adam's apple. It caused him to die from blood loss and shock, said the pathologist.

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Recalling her diagnosis when she was 12, Hannah, said: "I found a lump on my neck like a knobbly Adam's apple and when I was diagnosed I took months off school.

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Morticians at the Kenyatta University Funeral Home have been blamed over the missing Adam's apple of a Kiambu businessman.

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John Sharp, 48, from Greenock, throttled his dad so violently that he shattered a bone in his neck and his Adam's apple.