suture
n
(medical 医) stitch or stitches made in sewing up a wound, esp following an operation (伤口的)缝线, 缝术. suture, v [Tn]
(medical 医) sew up (a wound) 缝合(伤口).
In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them wildly improbable.