What is the Adams apple and what does it do?
We typed the first part of your question right into the Yahoo! search box, and guess what bobbed up to the surface? A helpful article titled “What’s an Adam’s Apple?” from KidsHealth. The site explains that the big bump jutting out from the throats of most men is really a part of the larynx or voice box. When boys go through puberty, hormones cause the larynx to grow rapidly, deepening their voices and causing the bulge to form. Girls’ voices also deepen with puberty, but since their larynxes don’t tend to grow as much, they don’t usually develop an “Eve’s apple.” Next we poked around MedTerms.com, a handy medical reference dictionary. We learned the protrusion is actually composed of
