Sentence:  his quill drawings had a scratchiness , suggesting skin texture ; the clay he used plastically to suggest soft moving <WSD>flesh</WSD> , as in an abdomen , in a reclining torso ; the wax he smoothed over to give the body surface an elastic pull . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat