Aiton’s Encyclopedia
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Adam's Apple

a name applied in sport to the enlarged gristly framework in the throat of a man. It is known to physiologists as the larynx. It is said that when Eve gave Adam the forbidden apple to eat, the core lodged in his throat. See Larynx

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