Your thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located below your Adam's apple.
The period in which the Adam's apple develops is often marked by wild fluctuations in the male voice, as the vocal cords settle into their new size.
Ronnie swallowed hard. He'd just started developing an Adam's apple, and he could feel the knot pogo in his throat. He stopped walking.
Over time, an Adam's apple will grow quite solid; young people have soft, flexible cartilage, while older people have more bony protrusions.
Also known as the laryngeal prominence, the Adam's apple sits right on top of the thyroid gland, so the area is fittingly called the thyroid cartilage.
The size of an Adam's apple can vary widely; some are extremely prominent, while others are less pronounced, and they even appear enlarged on some women as well as men.
Noticing how little Han spoke and how much effort it took, Hung-chien wished Han could have pulled out the Adam's apple like a stopper from a bottle and let the rest of his speech flow more freely.
Adam's apples are found on both women and men - they just show up more prominently in men as a chunk of bony cartilage that's wrapped around the larynx.
