1 Battle star, an award issued to U.S. Navy ships for participation in battles.  Battlestar (fictional spaceship), a type of spaceship in the original and new television series Battlestar Galactica.
Smooth muscle is fundamentally different from skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle in terms of structure, function, regulation of contraction, and excitation-contraction coupling. Smooth muscle cells known as myocytes, have a fusiform shape and, like striated muscle, can tense and relax.
Smooth muscle 40X. Smooth muscle can be confused with cardiac muscle because the cells are often running in different directions, just as they are in cardiac muscle.Smooth muscle cells are a lot smaller than cardiac muscle cells, and they do not branch or connect end to end the way cardiac cells do.mooth muscle 40X. Smooth muscle can be confused with cardiac muscle because the cells are often running in different directions, just as they are in cardiac muscle.