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Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Adam's apple

The human larynx rests in a frame of cartilage bound by ligaments and muscles. At the front is the thyroid cartilage, creating the lump at the front of the neck, known as the laryngeal prominence or more commonly as the Adam's apple. The etymology of the term "Adam's apple" is unclear: Webster's 1913 dictionary states that the term "... is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit, (an ...

Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Vocal cords The vocal cords, also known as vocal folds, are composed of twin infoldings of mucous membrane stretched horizontally across the human larynx. They vibrate, modulating the flow of air being expelled from the lungs during phonation. Open during breathing, the folds are controlled via the arytenoid cartilages for speech or singing. They are white because of poor blood circulation. The folds vibrate when they are closed to obstruct the airflow through the glottis, the space between the folds: they are forced open by ...

Adam's apple: Health and Healing Dictionary on Thyroid

Thyroid: The thyroid gland produces hormones that are essential for normal body metabolism. This gland is located in the lower part of the neck, below the Adam's apple. The gland wraps around the windpipe (trachea).

Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Forehead

In human anatomy, the forehead or brow is the bony vertical part of the head above the eyes. Muscles of the forehead include the frontalis, which moves and contracts the forehead's scalp. HEAD: Forehead – Eye – Ear – Nose – Mouth – Tongue – Teeth – Jaw – Face – Cheek – Chin NECK: Throat – Adam's apple TORSO: Shoulders – Spine – Chest – Breast – Ribcage – Abdomen– Belly button Sex organs (Penis/Scrotum or Clitoris/Vagina) – Rectum ...

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Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Voiced consonant

A voiced consonant is a sound made as the vocal cords vibrate, as opposed to a voiceless consonant, where the vocal cords are relaxed. See phonation for a continuum of degrees of tension in the vocal cords. Examples of voiced-voiceless pairs of consonants are: If you place your fingers on your voice box (Adam's apple in your upper throat), you can feel a buzz when you pronounce zzzz, but not when you pronounce ssss. That buzz is the vibration of your vocal cords. Except for this, the sounds [s] and [z] are pract ...

Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Thyroid

The thyroid is one of the larger endocrine glands in the body. It is located in the neck and produces hormones, principally thyroxine and triiodothyronine, that regulate the rate of metabolism and affect the growth and rate of function of many other systems in the body. Thyroid - Anatomy. Thyroid - Gross anatomy. The thyroid is situated on the front side of the neck at the level of C5 to T1 vertebral bodies, just below the laryngeal prominence (Adam's apple), near the thyroid ca ...

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Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Apple

The apple is a tree and its pomaceous fruit, of species Malus domestica in the family Rosaceae, and is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. It is a small deciduous tree reaching 5-12 m tall, with a broad, often densely twiggy crown. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple oval with an acute tip and serrated margin, slightly downy below, 5-12 cm long and 3-6 cm broad on a 2-5 cm petiole. The flowers are produced in spring with the leaves, white, usually tinged pink at first, 2.5-3.5 cm diameter, with five petals. T ...

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Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Adam and Eve

According to the Book of Genesis in Judaism's Torah, the Christian Bible and Islam's Qur'an, Adam was the first man created by God. At Genesis 1:27 Adam's female mate is said to have been created with Adam, and at Genesis 2:21-22 Adam's wife is named as Eve (or Chava-חוה) and was created from his side. Hence, Eve has, in modern times, been thought of as the first woman, according to these texts, though classical traditions recorded in the Midrash make her the second. The Qur'an tells the story of Adam and Eve mainly i ...

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Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Coleco Adam

The Coleco Adam was a home computer, an attempt in the early 1980s by American toy manufacturer Coleco to follow on the success of its Colecovision game console. The Adam was not very successful, partly because of early production problems. Announced in June 1983 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show, executives predicted sales of 500,000 by Christmas 1983. As it turned out, only a small number of units actually shipped that year, preventing it from taking advantage of the video game crash of 1983. From the time of the computer's introduction to the time of its shipme ...

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Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Fruitarianism

Fruitarians (or fructarians) are a subgroup of vegans who eat only the fruit of plants. This includes not only what one typically thinks of as a "fruit" in the culinary sense such as apples and oranges, but also other foods that are botanically the fruits of flowering plants (that is, the seed-containing reproductive parts), including berries, nuts, seeds, capsicums, tomatoes, squash, beans, peas, and so on. There are different variations of fruitarianism. Some fruitarians will eat only what falls (or would fall) naturally from ...

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Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Evangelism

Evangelism is the preaching of the Christian Gospel or, by extension, any other form of preaching or proselytizing. The word evangelist comes from the Koine Greek word εὐάγγελος ("eu-angelos"), meaning bringer of good news. The Koine expression for good news, εὐάγγελιον ("eu-angelion") is used to refer to the four Gospels in the New Testament; and thus the Evangelists are also the authors of the four Gospels -- traditionally known as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

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Adam's apple: Encyclopedia - Calf muscle

The calf or sura is a pair of muscles -- the gastrocnemius and soleus -- at the back of the lower human leg. The calf muscle is connected to the foot through the Achilles tendon, which acts to plantar flex the foot. so it is used extensively in walking and running. ILIAC REGION: gluteus (maximus, medius, minimus) | iliacus | gemellus (inferior, superior) | obturator (externus, internus) | quadratus femoris | piriformis | tensor fasciae latae THIGH: adductor (brevis, longus ...

Adam's apple: Encyclopedia II - Larynx - Structure

The structure of the larynx is mainly composed of cartilage bound by ligaments and muscle. At the front is the thyroid cartilage, creating the prominence of the Adam's apple in humans. The inferior horns (protrusions at the bottom rear of the thyroid cartilage) of the thyroid cartilage rest on a ring-shaped cartilage called the cricoid cartilage which connects the larynx to the trachea. The cricoid cartilage resembles a signet ring (narrow in front, broader in back). Above the larynx is the hyoid bone, by which (via various muscles and ligam ...

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