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The outer nuclear layer (or layer of outer granules or external nuclear layer) is one of the layers of the vertebrate retina the light-detecting portion of the eye. Like the inner nuclear layer the outer nuclear layer contains several strata of oval nuclear bodies; they are of two kinds viz.: rod and cone granules so named on account of their being respectively connected with the rods and cones of the next layer.

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