Patent ID: 8314836

Claim:
A medical apparatus comprising: an image pickup apparatus provided for a medical instrument to pick up an image of a region to be examined in a body; a fixing section that keeps the image pickup apparatus indwelling in and fixed to a body wall in the body; a transmission section that extends from the image pickup apparatus and transmits a power or an electric signal to/from a device outside the body; and a shake absorption section arranged in the body as a section independent of the image pickup apparatus, which absorbs and suppresses shaking of the transmission section by means of a movable member connected to the transmission section and accommodated so as to be freely movable in the image pickup apparatus indwelling in and fixed to a body wall, a biasing member for biasing the movable member toward an inside of the image pickup apparatus, and a sealing member for watertightly holding the movable member in a freely movable manner.