Temporary tables

Can we create temporary tables in Oracle?

    Is there any concept like what we do in SYBASE?     i.e. In SYBASE if we create a table starting with #, then that table will be

    treated as a temporary table.
    Is there anything like this ORACLE?

Thanks in Advance,
SeeniRaj.K

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