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.
Heart muscle exhibits many structural and functional characteristics intermediate between those of skeletal and smooth muscle. Like skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle contractions are strong, and utilise a great deal of energy.Like some smooth muscle, cardiac muscle can contract without nervous stimulation (i.e. it is myogenic) and this enables the heart to be transplanted.itochondria are more numerous in cardiac muscle cells than in skeletal muscle, and the T-Tubules are continuous with the cell membrane. These carry action potentials into the cell interior and are well developed in the ventricles of the heart, but poorly developed in both atria.