Adam's Apple
The protuberance in the fore-part of a man's throat; so called
from the superstition that a piece of the forbidden fruit which Adam
ate stuck in his throat, and occasioned the swelling.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Adam's Apple from Fact Monster:
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