Top definition. Musk. Though technically the name for the secretion of the male musk deer, musk is most often used as the name for the scent of arousal in both men and women, as actual musk is used in perfumes and colognes. Generally causes arousal for both genders, as it is a secondary sex characteristic.
These photoreceptors are called the rods and cones. Rods are called rods because under the microscope, they are shaped like, of all things, a rod. Finally, those pesky scientists named a structure for what it actually looks like as opposed to someone's unpronounceable last name!
Central and Peripheral Vision. The light-sensitive rods and cones form a tightly packed network.Each eye contains 100 million rods and 3 million cones but they are not distributed evenly. Rods are mainly located in the outer edges of the retina, and cones are clustered in the center.