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Roughly treated a cold — a virus right in a bodily system (14)

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I believe the answer is:

cardiovascular

'a bodily system' is the definition.

'roughly treated a cold a virus right' is the wordplay.
'roughly' becomes 'ca' (**).
'treated' indicates an anagram.
'right' becomes 'r' (common abbreviation).
'a'+'cold'+'a'+'virus'='acoldavirus'
'acoldavirus' with letters rearranged gives 'rdiovascula'.
'ca'+'rdiovascula'+'r'='CARDIOVASCULAR'

'in' acts as a link.

(Another definition for cardiovascular that I've seen is " Relating to the heart and blood vessels".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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