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.
Cardiac muscle is the muscle that your heart uses, this type of muscle never tires, skeletal muscle is like the muscle you use to contract your arm, and smooth muscle is the m â¦ uscle your stomache and other similair organs use to push food through your system.