Flesh

Flesh

In vertebrate animals, flesh is the colloquial term for biological tissue which consists of skeletal muscles and fat as opposed to bones, viscera and integuments. Flesh may be used as food, in which case it commonly is called meat.

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Famous quotes containing the word flesh:

    “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Job 19:25.

    “Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.”
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    “My Friend is not of some other race or family of men, but flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone. He is my real brother.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)