"Thyroid cartilage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... personal vanity; but I confess that at the moment, contemplating my likeness in the mirror, I could have wished my knees had not been quite so prominently conspicuous, and that the projection of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx, called vulgarly Adam's apple, had been perhaps ...
— Fibble, D. D. • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... like a protecting shield, fully six inches above the top of his head, they will find it difficult to show how, unless projectiles travel in sharp curves or angles, a man in this position could thus receive a wound directly beneath his chin, a wound so slight as not to penetrate the thyroid cartilage immediately ...
— The Darrow Enigma • Melvin L. Severy |
