2006-10-14 08:22:04 · 5 answers · asked by tanny 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The Adam in question is everybody's relative. It's called an Adam's apple because of a legend that a piece of the forbidden fruit got stuck in his throat. Eve didn't know the Heimlich maneuver, and the resultant bulge has been passed down to subsequent generations as a sign of male weakness--as if we needed reminding. In reality the Adam's apple is "the anterior extremity of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx."
Regarding the etymology of the term "Adam's apple", Webster's 1913 dictionary states that the term "… is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit, (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent."
2006-10-14 08:35:12 · answer #1 · answered by Pey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It represents a piece of the apple that stuck in Adam's throat when he took a bite out of the apple offered to him by Eve!
2006-10-14 15:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by avian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
guys have a more pronouced adams apple than girls do
2006-10-14 15:33:39 · answer #3 · answered by animalzhu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, that's the "little fruit" Eva grabbed once she saw it.
2006-10-21 14:31:46 · answer #4 · answered by Potitin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interesting also - that women do not have one
2006-10-20 11:16:21 · answer #5 · answered by Marsha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋