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.
1 Commonality between smooth and cardiac muscle types. 2  The type of muscle under voluntary control. 3  Which type of muscle moves your tongue. 4  Striated muscles.  Where you would be most likely to find smooth muscles in the body.