is the anterior protuberance of the thyroid cartilage, usually seen in men, and so called, according to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, from the superstition that a piece of forbidden fruit from which Adam ate stuck in his throat and occasioned the swelling. There is no mention in the biblical account that the primordial fruit was, in fact, an apple. Professor Alexander Gode points out  (JAMA.1968;206:1058) that the Latin term pomum Adami  ("Adam Apple (Laryngeal Prominence)") is really an early mistranslation of the Hebrew tap- puach ha adam, "male bump. "Whoever made the mistake might be excused on the grounds that a single Hebrew word means Both"bump"and"apple, "and that the Hebrew word for "man"came to be the proper name"Adam. "