# Can a woman have an adam's apple? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 6, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968 "2007-04-06T13:25:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/1 "2007-04-06T13:25:55Z")
Seriously. Is this possible? ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/2 "2007-04-06T13:33:50Z")
I am just laughing my ass off, imagining why you are asking this question. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/3 "2007-04-06T13:36:55Z")
Why do you want to know, Winston? šŸ˜› Women DO have Adamā€™s Apples. Theyā€™re just not as pronounced as menā€™s. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/4 "2007-04-06T13:46:15Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Seriously. Is this possible? [/QUOTE] Do you have a certain individual in mind who :dubious: you may have a question about? šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/5 "2007-04-06T13:49:20Z")
The Adamā€™s Apple is just the larynx, isnā€™t it? Everybody has one. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/6 "2007-04-06T13:51:18Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] The Adamā€™s Apple is just the larynx, isnā€™t it? Everybody has one. [/QUOTE] I wish my Mother-in-law didnā€™tā€¦ :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/7 "2007-04-06T14:16:46Z")
Google ā€œAnn Coulterā€ + ā€œAdamā€™s appleā€ ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/8 "2007-04-06T14:17:45Z")
I so **knew** that Ann Coultersā€™ name would be mentioned in this thread sooner or later ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/9 "2007-04-06T14:21:41Z")
[QUOTE=Cowboy8467] I so **knew** that Ann Coultersā€™ name would be mentioned in this thread sooner or later [/QUOTE] I resisted at least 15 minutes ago. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/10 "2007-04-06T15:07:46Z")
Havenā€™t ever touched/kissed a womanā€™s throat, I see? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/11 "2007-04-06T15:13:25Z")
I had always thought that men had a bone right over their larynxes, which women donā€™t have, and that this bone is what creates the appearance of the adamā€™s apple? The hyoid bone. Just remembered the name. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/12 "2007-04-06T15:14:40Z")
The serious answer is that the Adamā€™s apple is the front part of the larynx. Men tend to have larger larynxes than women, so their Adamā€™s apples tend to be more prominent. But the operative word is ā€œtend,ā€ so there are many women who have visible Adamā€™s apples and many men who donā€™t. IANAE but presumably the structure of the neck plays a role in whether the Adamā€™s apple is visible. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/13 "2007-04-06T15:17:36Z")
Iā€™ll just note that the adamā€™s apple is also known as the ā€œvoice box.ā€ Yes, women have a voice box; otherwise they wouldnā€™t be able to talk. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/14 "2007-04-06T15:34:52Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] I had always thought that men had a bone right over their larynxes, which women donā€™t have, and that this bone is what creates the appearance of the adamā€™s apple? The hyoid bone. Just remembered the name. [/QUOTE] Men and women both have a hyoid bone. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/15 "2007-04-06T15:39:27Z")
_Notices that ā€˜Lolaā€™ by the Kinks is playing on his MP3 player._šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/16 "2007-04-06T15:39:32Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Men and women both have a hyoid bone. Yeah, 'cause thatā€™s the one that gets broken in manual strangulation. Um. Not that Iā€™d know anything about that. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/17 "2007-04-06T17:05:43Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] Yes, women have a voice box; otherwise they wouldnā€™t be able to talk. [/QUOTE] Thatā€™s why I had to laugh at the OP. Hereā€™s an example of an ā€œappleā€ woman:[http://www.rankincounty.org/TA/](http://www.rankincounty.org/TA/) ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/18 "2007-04-06T17:35:12Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] I had always thought that men had a bone right over their larynxes, which women donā€™t have, and that this bone is what creates the appearance of the adamā€™s apple? The hyoid bone. Just remembered the name. [/QUOTE] There is no gross anatomical structure in the human female body outside of the reproductive system that does not have a direct analogue in the human male, and vice versa. It all comes from the same general recipe. Men donā€™t have one less rib than women, either. As for Coulter, Iā€™m not entirely convinced of her membership in the human raceā€“she strikes me as some kind of freakish human-alien hybridā€“but it is certainly possible for women to have a visable larnyx and still be entirely female in all salient ways; as previously noted, men generally have deeper voices, thus the requirement for a larger voicebox to create longer, low frequency sound. Curiously, no one accuses men who lack a visible Adamā€™s apple of being gay or secretly female. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/19 "2007-04-06T18:23:10Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] There is no gross anatomical structure in the human female body outside of the reproductive system that does not have a direct analogue in the human male, and vice versa. It all comes from the same general recipe. Men donā€™t have one less rib than women, either. [/QUOTE] Fact accepted, butā€¦ never get involved in a land war in Asia. There are species in which the males have a [baculum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_bone) that the females are missing. So, just because the general map is the same, you canā€™t say that the bones are going to be the same. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968/20 "2007-04-06T18:26:21Z")
I was just watching a Sandra Bullock film last night and was surprised to see how visible hers is. No, Iā€™m not going to sift through numerous photo sites to find one that shows it. Youā€™ll have to watch her next film carefully if you want to see it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-have-an-adams-apple/398968.md?page=2)