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Flesh is the soft part of the body of a person or animal which is between the skin and the bones. In ordinary speech, it typically contrasts with bone
Bone

Bones are rigid organ that form part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates. They function to move, support, and protect the various organs of the body, produce red blood cell and white blood cells and store minerals....
, as in the merism
Merism

In rhetoric, a merism is a figure of speech by which a single thing is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its parts, or which lists several synonyms for the same thing....
 flesh and bone. It mainly refers to skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscle

They generally contract voluntarily , although they can contract involuntarily through Reflex action. The whole muscle is wrapped in a special type of connective tissue, epimysium....
 and associated fat
Fat

Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. Chemistry, fats are generally ester of glycerol and fatty acids....
, though it includes all other internal soft tissue
Soft tissue

In medicine, the term soft tissue refers to Tissue that connect, support, or surround other structures and Organ s of the body.Soft tissue includes tendons, ligaments, fascia, Fibrous connective tissue, fat, and synovial membranes , and muscles, nerves and blood vessels ....
. The softness of a human body is generally attributed to flesh, although muscle
MUSCLE

MUSCLE is public domain, multiple sequence alignment software for protein and nucleotide sequences.MUSCLE is integrated into UGENE bioinformatics tool as a plugin....
s can also give a notion of hardness.

The word "meat
Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
" is normally used instead if animal flesh is intended as food.

In some instances, the term "flesh" will be used to describe the soft interior of fruits, usually the part that is eaten.






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Flesh is the soft part of the body of a person or animal which is between the skin and the bones. In ordinary speech, it typically contrasts with bone
Bone

Bones are rigid organ that form part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates. They function to move, support, and protect the various organs of the body, produce red blood cell and white blood cells and store minerals....
, as in the merism
Merism

In rhetoric, a merism is a figure of speech by which a single thing is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its parts, or which lists several synonyms for the same thing....
 flesh and bone. It mainly refers to skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscle

They generally contract voluntarily , although they can contract involuntarily through Reflex action. The whole muscle is wrapped in a special type of connective tissue, epimysium....
 and associated fat
Fat

Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. Chemistry, fats are generally ester of glycerol and fatty acids....
, though it includes all other internal soft tissue
Soft tissue

In medicine, the term soft tissue refers to Tissue that connect, support, or surround other structures and Organ s of the body.Soft tissue includes tendons, ligaments, fascia, Fibrous connective tissue, fat, and synovial membranes , and muscles, nerves and blood vessels ....
. The softness of a human body is generally attributed to flesh, although muscle
MUSCLE

MUSCLE is public domain, multiple sequence alignment software for protein and nucleotide sequences.MUSCLE is integrated into UGENE bioinformatics tool as a plugin....
s can also give a notion of hardness.

The word "meat
Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
" is normally used instead if animal flesh is intended as food.

In some instances, the term "flesh" will be used to describe the soft interior of fruits, usually the part that is eaten.