As the developing stomach reaches the abdomen, it undergoes rotation around a longitudinal anteroposterior axis. This rotation displaces the cardiac (ie, cephalic) part of the stomach to the left and slightly downward and the pyloric (ie, caudal) part of stomach to the right and upward. Thus the stomach assumes its final position, its long axis passing from above left to below right. The greater curvature faces downward and the lesser curvature faces upward and to the right.