A medical condition where the penis is curved downward due to abnormal tissue development, often a birth defect.
From French 'cordée' (rope-like) or Italian 'cordae' (cords), describing the string-like fibrous tissue causing the curvature. Medical term adopted in the 19th century.
The word chordee comes from the fact that doctors could feel these cord-like tissue bands when examining the condition—they named it based on how it felt!
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