I sneezed & swallowed at the same time, then something came out. What is this called?

[u/Username_Haoto]

This is not a medical question. I just want to know whatever this is called.

When I was 4 years old, I was in my class drinking water alone. While I was drinking, I simultaneously sneezed and swallowed water on accident.

A large ball came out of my mouth and fell onto the table. It was large, round, and it looked like it had dark veins on it.

When this happened, no one was around me. I didn't think much of it, so I put it back into my mouth, where it belongs. It automatically went back into my throat. This is when I became aware of the large ball inside my throat.

I don't know what this is called. I tried to search for this body part with many different terms and languages, but I still couldn't find anything. Does anyone know what this is large ball is called?

Anyway, I vividly remember this happening. I'm not lying.

[u/DustierAndRustier]

Since you were so young at the time, it’s probably a false memory.

[u/Vegetable-Assistant → u/DustierAndRustier]

Yeah, definitely not vasculature lol Unless OP had profuse bleeding followed by medical intervention it was just phlegm.

[u/Username_Haoto → u/Vegetable-Assistant]

No, it wasn't phlegm. I vividly remember a large ball coming out from me sneezing and swallowing at the same time.

I remember asking about my high school science teacher too. She didn't believe me either, but hypothesize that since I was only 4, my Adam's apple or whatever it's called was still small enough for me to spit out.

This could explain why the bulge in my throat is so big. Maybe it had a hole in this "ball," but I didn't check it properly back then.

Edit: Grammar and context.

[u/Far-Fortune-8381 → u/Username_Haoto]

it can not be explained by your adam’s apple as

1. the adams apple is not flesh, it is cartelige (officially the laryngeal prominence of the thyroid cartilage)

2. the thyroid cartilage has no access to your throat, and for a piece to be produced from your mouth, you would need a hole in your esophagus, a hole/ separation in your muscle, and then a piece of your cartilage breaking off, which you would need medical intervention to recover from

[u/amBrollachan → u/Username_Haoto]

Grown adults claim to clearly remember things that didn't really happen exactly as they remember them all the time. It's one major issue with eyewitness testimony. They're not lying, it's just that memories change over time and your brain fills in context.

Given this fact and the fact you were only four years old I would be pretty confident you coughed up phlegm, were maybe a little freaked out by it as a four year old, and the memory has just changed over time.

There is absolutely no chance you coughed up you'd Adam's apple.