栓塞 Traditional form: 栓塞 Pinyin (reading): shuānsè Definitions: (medicine) embolism Characters: 栓 - cork, peg, stopper 塞 - to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress Traditional characters: 栓 - cork, peg, stopper 塞 - to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress