Talk:Adam's apple

message: why do some men have no visible adam's apple? And what difference would it make? I thought these questions might be worth covering in the article.
I think your question is relevant and I hope someone addresses it. I was discussing with a family member recently that it seems like you don't see Adam's apples on men as much anymore. 69.119.207.171 (talk) 06:07, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It could be genetic and I consider it good, I don't have the apple either and I'm grateful for that, since that thing looks really gross. --†_JuanPa_† (talk) 06:39, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: A lot of men don't have adam's apples

message: The "sex differences" really needs work.  All the references to 'A prominent laryngeal prominence' were actually pretty painful to read, so much so that it actually seems to have been written with tongue in cheek.  If so, it's clever, but should probably be changed regardless. --joshua orvis (talk) 17:46, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Adam's apple" isn't merely 'colloquial'—several dictionaries have an entry for it, not listed as 'slang' or 'informal'. And what does it matter if it's a "religious" term? Why should "Adam's apple", out of all the other "colloquialisms" on this site, be singled out just because it's religiously based? The vast majority of both religious and non-religious people use the term. - Jacottier 01:12, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
Why does this article have a link to itself? Fledchen 13:15, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

text: I've removed the link, as it's completely pointless.Judetlk 13:42, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Older

message: I think the page should be moved to "Adam's apple" because it is by far most easily recognized name, and should be moved per WP:NAME. It doesn't matter that laryngeal prominence is more formal because it isn't commonly used by non-doctors.  There isn't even a page at Adam's Apple right now (except a redirect). Austin512 (talk) 04:21, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it should be moved to "Adam's apple" since that is the most common name. I've never even heard the term "laryngeal prominence" before reading this article. 74.107.146.22 (talk) 10:32, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move 

message: Um, okay. That's a redundant redundancy. 75.118.170.35 (talk) 20:39, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A prominent laryngeal prominence 

message: Some guy added a pic of my adam's apple here. It was during my WB and I had made a few edits as an anon so I'm just putting a note here that I WAS NOT THE ONE WHO PUT IN THE PIC. Thanks  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil  08:59, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note 

message: I've just not moved the page from "Laryngeal prominence" to "Adam's apple", based primarily on WP:COMMONNAME. Please note that this article was moved from "Adam's apple" to "Laryngeal prominence" in 2007 by , so if anyone objects to the article title at this point then a Requested move process would probably be the best way to go.— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 02:44, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to Adam's apple 

message: According to de:wikt:Adamsapfel, which seems to be sourced from Kluge's Etymological Dictionary of German, the explanation as a mistranslation of Hebrew ṯapūaḥ haʾāḏām is actually as old as the 19th century (thus predating Alexander Gode), but the term is not actually attested in Hebrew before the Modern Hebrew period – the modern term ṯapūaḥ haʾāḏām riʾšōn ("apple of the first man/human being") having arisen under the influence of European languages. Therefore, the immediate source is indeed the legend, although it is not old either; the European term arose through a fanciful interpretation of Adamsapfel (cf. Paradiesapfel, "paradise apple", i. e. "excellent, exotic apple [from a warm climate]", for "tomato"), whose original meaning is "pomegranate", and in the sense "laryngeal prominence" is modelled after the Latin term pōmum grānātum (literally "pomegranate"), itself after the Arabic tradition of using the word for "pomegranate" to refer to the laryngeal prominence in medical writings.
Funny enough, I have been familiar with the Hebrew explanation for a long time, but on encountering it again in the newspaper, I suddenly became sceptical and began to check. Bingo! --Florian Blaschke (talk) 20:46, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: Together, a larger soundboard is made up in phonation apparatus and, as a result, the man gets a deeper tone.
This should be reworded for clarity.  I know virtually nothing about anatomy, but based on the second sentence in the same paragraph -- During adolescence, the thyroid cartilage grows together with the larynx -- my suggestion is to change the above sentence to the following:
The enlargement of the thyroid cartilage and the larynx, together, constitute an enlargement of the soundboard in the phonation apparatus, which explains why adult men typically have deeper voices than adult women and children.
I'll leave this to someone more knowledgeable.  It might be better to rewrite the paragraph entirely.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Usewhosename (talk • contribs) 02:28, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strangely-worded sentence in the "Fuction" section 

message: Has anyone discovered any genetic markers that might affect the degree of prominence? Jimw338 (talk) 19:04, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genetic markers of prominence (both male and female)?