Sentence:  his quill drawings had a scratchiness , suggesting skin texture ; the clay he used plastically to suggest soft moving flesh , as in an abdomen , in a reclining torso ; the wax he smoothed over to give the <WSD>body</WSD> surface an elastic pull . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)