Hands-on treatment suits a hospital casualty? (7)
I believe the answer is:
shiatsu
'hospital casualty?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'hands-on treatment suits a' is the wordplay.
'hands' becomes 'h' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'on' indicates putting letters inside.
'treatment' is an anagram indicator (letters treated or processed differently).
'suits'+'a'='suitsa'
'suitsa' anagrammed gives 'siatsu'.
'h' placed within 'siatsu' is 'SHIATSU'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for shiatsu that I've seen before include "Japanese healing therapy using massage with the fingers" , "form of massage" , "Treatment involving finger pressure at specific points" , "Form of treatment that entails pressure with the fingers on specific points on the body" , "form of Japanese therapy" .)