def _get_description(entry):
        """
        Get the description of the omim entity
        from the textSection called 'description'.
        Note that some of these descriptions have linebreaks.
        If printed in turtle syntax, they will appear to be triple-quoted.
        :param entry:
        :return:

        """
        description = None
        if entry is not None and 'textSectionList' in entry:
            textsectionlist = entry['textSectionList']
            for ts in textsectionlist:
                if ts['textSection']['textSectionName'] == 'description':
                    description = ts['textSection']['textSectionContent']
                    # there are internal references to OMIM identifiers in
                    # the description, I am formatting them in our style.
                    description = re.sub(r'{(\d+)}', r'OMIM:\1', description)

                    # TODO
                    # reformat the citations in the description with PMIDs
                    break

        return description