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The Adam's apple is the protrusion in the neck formed by the angle of the thyroid cartilage surrounding the larynx, typically visible in men, less frequently in women. The prominence of the Adam's apple increases in some men as a secondary male sex characteristic during puberty .
The cartilage is composed of two halves, which meet in the middle at a peak called the laryngeal prominence, also called the Adam's apple. [1] In the midline above the prominence is the superior thyroid notch. A counterpart notch at the bottom of the cartilage is called the inferior thyroid notch.
The Adam's apple is the thyroid cartilage. It protrudes more on a man because the larynx grows more, and hence pushes it out. Therefore, both men and women have a thyroid cartilage, but generally it is only visible as an Adam's apple on a man.Jude tlk 14:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC) NOTABLE ADAM'S APPLES
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A secondary sex characteristic is a physical characteristic of an organism that is related to or derived from its sex, but not directly part of its reproductive system. [1] In humans , these characteristics typically start to appear during puberty —and include enlarged breasts and widened hips of females, facial hair and Adam's apples on ...
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