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!
The layer of cells at the front of the retina contains the retinal ganglion cells, whose axons pass across the surface of the retina, collect in a bundle at the optic disc, and leave the eye to form the optic nerve.Each eye contains about 125 million rods and cones but only i million ganglion cells.ecause the rods and cones are at the back of the retina, the incoming light has to go through the other two layers in order to stimulate them. We do not fully understand why the retina develops in this curious backward fashion.