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Bloody treatment and daily abuse by sibling (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dialysis

'bloody treatment' is the definition.
(medical treatment for blood)

'daily abuse by sibling' is the wordplay.
'abuse' indicates anagramming the letters.
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'sibling' becomes 'sis' (short for sister).
'daily' with letters rearranged gives 'dialy'.
'dialy'+'sis'='DIALYSIS'

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for dialysis that I've seen before include "Procedure for one with kidney failure" , "Clinical purification of blood" , "It's used in the case of kidney failure" , "Blood purification process" , "Kidney failure necessitates this procedure" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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