Why Women Don't Have Adam's Apples

Hey Doc why don't women have Adams apple?

Dr. Charlotte Grayson: Actually women do have a Adam's apple's they are just not as large as men's will usually, the name comes from the story of Adam and Eve, Adam wasn't suppose to eat the apple so it got stuck in his throat, that build is officially know as the Laryngeal Prominence its chord to lets that protection larynx, the structure in your neck that has its your vocal chord, during puberty the boys larynx grows giving him a deeper voice and a long with it the surrounding cartilage grows, the result the protrusion we called the Adams apple. A growth larynx also grows but not nearly as much also women generally have a higher percentage of body fat than man, which gives their necks a more string like look. Unfortunately for man though the Adams apple is most noticeable function. May be to embrace them, it's been known to Bob up and down when they are nervous. So don't ever lie to your wife, probably will be able to tell for stump the Doc I am Dr. Charlotte Grayson.


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