Path. Also 8 cordee. [ad. F. cordée in chaudepisse cordée.] A painful inflammatory downward curving of the penis.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais (1737), V. 217–8. Cordees, Buboes.
1713. W. Cockburn, Gonorrhœa (1728), 117. This … agreeing … with chordé in French and corded in English, the impropriety … is very great when we say that any one has a Chordée.
1801. Med. Jrnl., V. 381. Where a chordee and ardor urinæ take place.
1879. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., II. 54. The forcible bending of an erect penis in a chordee.
