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'''Flesh''' is the soft part of the body of a human or animal which is between the skin and the bones. In ordinary speech, it typically contrasts with [[bone]], as in the [[merism]] ''flesh and bone''. It mainly refers to [[skeletal muscle]] and associated [[fat]], though it includes all other internal [[soft tissue]]. The softness of a human body is generally attributed to flesh, although [[muscle]]s can also give a notion of hardness. | '''Flesh''' is the soft part of the body of a human or animal which is between the skin and the bones. In ordinary speech, it typically contrasts with [[bone]], as in the [[merism]] ''flesh and bone''. It mainly refers to [[skeletal muscle]] and associated [[fat]], though it includes all other internal [[soft tissue]]. The softness of a human body is generally attributed to flesh, although [[muscle]]s can also give a notion of hardness. |
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"How often when I was installed in the desert . . . I would imagine myself taking part in the gay life of Rome! . . . Although my only companions were scorpions and wild beasts, time and again I was mingling with the dances of girls. My face was pallid with fasting and my body chill, but my mind was throbbing with desires; my flesh was as good as dead, but the flames of lust raged in it." --Jerome, recalling his life of desert asceticism, quoted in J. N. D. Kelly, Jerome: His Life, Writings and Controversies, page 52., translation F. A. Wright |
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Flesh is the soft part of the body of a human or animal which is between the skin and the bones. In ordinary speech, it typically contrasts with bone, as in the merism flesh and bone. It mainly refers to skeletal muscle and associated fat, though it includes all other internal soft tissue. The softness of a human body is generally attributed to flesh, although muscles can also give a notion of hardness.
The word "meat" is normally used instead if animal flesh is intended as food.
In fiction, by title
- Flesh (2005), a short subject on 9/11 by Edouard Salier
- The Flesh Eaters
- Flesh
- Café Flesh
- Devil in the Flesh (1986 film)
- The Way of All Flesh
See also
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