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Ancient scar one overlooked distorted hospital monitor (3,7)

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I believe the answer is:

cat scanner

'hospital monitor' is the definition.

'ancient scar one overlooked distorted' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'overlooked' suggests deleting specific letters.
'distorted' indicates anagramming the letters.
'ancient'+'scar'='ancientscar'
'ancientscar' with 'i' removed is 'ancentscar'.
'ancentscar' with letters rearranged gives 'CAT SCANNER'.

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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