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The lump that grew when your voice cracked and never apologized.
means The visible lump at the front of the throat, formed by the thyroid cartilage of the larynx, typically more prominent in men.
from From the biblical legend that a piece of the forbidden fruit lodged in Adam's throat — a folk story, since the Bible never names the fruit as an apple. The phrase is likely a translation of the Latin 'pomum Adami,' which may itself be a mistranslation of a Hebrew phrase meaning 'bump on a man,' later reread as 'apple of man.' Either way, the throat-lump got Adam's name and never gave it back.
- actual structure
- It's thyroid cartilage shielding your voice box
- size gap
- Bigger in men due to puberty hormones
- odd name
- Biblical fruit myth, no scientific basis
- everyone has one
- Women have them too, just smaller
- voice link
- Larger cartilage tilts toward deeper voices
for instance
adam's apple — anatomical feature: laryngeal prominence in the human neck, named after biblical adam, more prominent in men due to testosterone